crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Understanding and the Meaning of Color Within Design – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. Most of the people interviewed for this article expect that to change. “I and tagged with. Enterprise. The Talent Wars. Six VCs Speak Out. Online Communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

In fact, my next one is a one-hour interview with Chamillionaire that I did earlier this month at Washington University in St. For those that don’t mind reruns, I’ll publish the archive 1–2 weeks later, when I get around to uploading the video to the cloud, tagging and providing links. I will publish it next week.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. (Not It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Just as an aside, over my career I must have interviewed scores of business school graduates (some from the very fine universities where I now teach) who would say, “I want to do strategy.” Those were very short interviews. Well yes, I understand that, but this is a startup, what else do you want to do? “I I just want to do strategy.”

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. interviewing. Browse Articles by Tag. interviewing. The goal of this step is to gather additional information on the candidate’s qualifications and “fit,” which should help you more accurately determine which candidates advance to an interview. tags: hiring. advertising.

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The folks at BestVendor.com interviewed 500 developers and compiled this profile of the tools that they actually use. and tagged with. The folks at BestVendor.com interviewed 500 developers and compiled this profile of the tools that they actually use. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. All our products Pitching Hacks , Cap Table , and Co-founder Interview.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2016

If you’re interested, you can f ind, listen, and subscribe to my long, long list of archives here. One of the best ways to drive traffic is to find and interview interesting people. See if they’d be interested in guest hosting your show or if they would want you to interview them on there show. 1 Guest Selection.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

The department had hired a recruiter and was interviewing candidates from other chip companies. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.] One day I heard there was an opening in the marketing department for a product marketing manager for the Z-8000 peripheral chips. Get out of the building and meet people.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

They spend an hour on our site every day and we know why because we interviewed them.&# Bad forms of validation: “They said they would buy it!&#. Better forms: “They signed an LOI. I like the idea of making a list of types of validation. I know we have to create something users find valuable (the two-way search, games?)

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink. Bookmark the permalink. ← Words of widsom from my youth Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned at the University of Michigan → Comments are closed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. For hiring, Tim personally sits down with the key hires, and if it is research he does interviews with applicants as well. Tags: startupcto. The Idea People should keep a journal of ideas. I highly recommend this! United States License. United States License.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Before I show you where to start, you should remember what I said in the interview- Creating a great landing page (given time) is not all about being a great copywriter or designer. Traditionally this is a headline, image or tag line. I LOVED the Andrew Warner interview the 2nd 1/2 I listened too several times.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Solicit trusted advisors help with interviewing. Solicit trusted advisors help with interviewing. Tags: socalcto startupcto.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

The bottom line is to keep information that is vital; question information that either is popular or has priority; archive and remove information that is neither. Put another way, when was the last time you favored tags written into HTML over font properties in a separate CSS file? Oddly enough, this doesn’t mean removing pages.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

As one boss said “I’d much rather hear that over the phone than in an exit interview.&# I’ve gotten pats on the back for clearly saying “I’m burned out. I’m going home this weekend. I’ll see you all on Monday.&# Reply Tim Pham , on July 20, 2009 at 11:03 am Said: Love reading your blog, Steve.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Jason Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … Join the nextNY mailing list, and check out our archives where this has been beaten to death over and over. They might be experienced people who want to work on a new technology but hate interviewing. Tags: startupcto. The gist: 1.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Although you can watch the video archives on Justin.tv (and Paul Graham says he'll be posting the essay version of his remarks online soon), here are some of the highlights from my lecture notes: Andy Bechtolsheim: Founder, Arista Networks, Sun Microsystems. Interviewed by Jessica Livingston. "If Tags: Events.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

prevents you from establishing your hypotheses and verifying them with customers outside of the building via a good old fashion customer interview. Reply Customer Development with Network Effects | startupSQUARE's blog , on May 11, 2010 at 6:36 am Said: [.] “Do you have a lot of old junk you want to get rid [.]

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

at 12:10 pm Nice interview. at 1:13 pm Thomas great interview! the original post here: Micropreneur Spotlight: Online Mind Mapping Software ThoughtMuse … By admin | category: mind software | tags: camcorders, creator, interview-the-creator, [.] 3 comments ↓ #1 Jared on 10.07.09 2 Aiesha on 10.07.09

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Faith-based versus Fact-based , on June 21, 2009 at 3:55 pm Said: [.] As he points out, starting [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh. were born in India.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? Customer interviews and focus groups. This can involve fixing, adding or improving tag or event handling on the analytics configuration.). How to Archive Past Tests? Smart organizations archive their test results and plan their approach to testing systematically. How Long to A/B Test?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Post-Mortem Title : What an Entrepreneur Learned from His Failed Startup (interview). this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.]. Company : Sedna Wireless. Author : Rajiv Poddar | Kamla Bhatt.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? Tags: startupcto. Ultimately being a developer is not an essential criterion of founding an online startup. But it sure does seem to help!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

We would interview them after they put the box back on the shelf. We would run in and put test versions of dummy boxes on the shelf and just watch what happened – we wanted to see if people picked up the box, and when they did what they looked at and what they read. (We And we had to convince a few of them the box was really empty.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

As we found out when we interviewed our dealers, our sales department was using extra commission payments – called Spif’s – to incentivize the channel to move our product.) Worse news: The worst news was that more than half of our customers had gone into their dealers to buy another brand of graphics board.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. We had a comprehensive set of unit, acceptance, functional, and performance tests, and practiced TDD across the whole team. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

10 Things You Need To Know About Your Job Interviewer. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Full Archives. Heres What That Led To Explosive Growth For Chinese And Indian Entrepreneurs. Heres What That Led To Explosive Growth For Chinese And Indian Entrepreneurs. Entertainment. Advertising. Recommended For You. Categories.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

I read through your archives almost religiously before branching out to other marketers. If you want a much more detailed breakdown of this strategy, check out my interview with Adam Short , the creator of Niche Profit Classroom. It was an amazing journey. Why I Chose To Go Vertical. Yaro Starak. Vertically Integrated.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. Canvas , by GrowthHackers, helps support the whole growth process (including archiving results). Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc. Most flexibility of any tool out there.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

When you’re looking for a programmer, don’t forget to pitch and interview yourself. Tags: startupcto. One of my consulting clients made his first fortune 30+ years ago by investing his savings for a computer (very expensive at the time) and figured out the rest. Anything is possible if you want it badly enough. Blog at WordPress.com.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How to improve A/B test results How to prioritize A/B test hypotheses How long to run A/B tests How to set up A/B tests How to analyze A/B test results How to archive past A/B tests A/B testing statistics How to do A/B testing: tools and resources. This can involve fixing, adding, or improving tag/event handling in analytics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

If I had to guess, I would say that if we had interviewed customers in the experimental group, they would not have been able to consciously recall the video they had seen during registration. Venture Hacks interview: "What is the minimum viab. But, unconsciously, it had affected the positioning of IMVU in their minds.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types | Tagged: Customer Development « The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? shoes in order to deduce possible competitors’ moves and anticipate customer needs. Sounds like handspring.

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